The Consequential Slumber - Wake-Up Signal Broadcast Review (K012)

• ¶ The Consequential Slumber — Phenomena at Scale ↴
• ¶ Well-Rooted Traditions of Wake-Up Broadcasting ↴
• ¶ The Need for Counter-Signal – Message Alone Matters ↴

What's with the wake-up carnival? "Five more minutes, and who put you in charge of waking people up? Why are you so obsessed trying to snap people out of it? Just leave it alone, let it be. Let us be in our happy slumber."

Now first of all, let's recognize that all things have their necessary counterparts. Sleeping and coma are countered with alarm clocks and catalytic injections. For those of us who seek to move without subjective assertion, it's simply a choiceless reflection, the mirror of the reality. Sleeping. Waking up. Simple.

The Consequential Slumber — Phenomena at Scale ¶

Now beyond that, the thing is, if you were a single individual, joyfully in your isolated slumber, then okay, whatever, right? However, we are talking about phenomena at scale.

It's not simply you, it's your circle, it's your group, your nation, the whole damn society. Sleepwalking — and this sleepwalking is consequential. The fact is, these sleep filters, subjective cognitive distortion, and all that follows, are at the root of inequality, deprivation, conflict, warfare, and even total collapse and destruction.

All of this, when scaled up, is concerning. And by your slumber that feeds the slumber of others, by your selfishness that fuels the selfishness of others, you are contributing your minute part to the problem.

Even in a democratic world, where people elect their leaders, when the masses are fast asleep and self-absorbed, then what do you expect the figurehead to be? Look at the people on the stage. They are the crystallizations of the gist of what you are. Don't complain about the people elected into position. You, yourselves, are the ones who put them on pedestals as representations of what you truly seek.

Well-Rooted Traditions of Wake-Up Broadcasting ¶

Now, the tradition of broadcasting wake-up signals has been there since the dawn of time. Here on the island of Java, we hear the five daily prayer calls, La Ilaha Illallah. calling people to come to a unified center, to a point of clarity and subservience to the whole.

The bells are tolling from the churches, calling people to attend to the cathedral, the sacred space within. Alas the priest too is asleep and hallucinating.

And then we have the Hare Krishnas marching up and down the downtown in their goofy costumes. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. That's called wake-up signal trolling. It works. Been there, done that for a good couple of years.

The Need for Counter-Signal – Message Alone Matters ¶

Point being, any which way, there needs to be a counter-signal to the sleeping masses in order to keep the world in some sort of a balance. Otherwise, it's a downhill road. Entropy, destruction, terminal. We don't need to go there.

"You there, Mr. Wakey Man, you're just doing this to promote yourself. Step down from the pedestal, you're the same as the rest of us." Okay. That, my friend, is projection, deflection, and absolute diversion from the topic itself. It is a classic defense mechanism from the world of slumber.

The person talking to you does not matter. Whatever. Are the words valid or not? Does the message add up? That is the only thing we need to consider. So consider that in place of considering the person speaking the words.

And by all means, step up yourself, start the broadcast. What's stopping you? Save and accept your fear that being wakeful in a society of sleepyheads would single you out, would isolate you from the hallucinating masses. We like it in the sleep world.

Okay, that's your choice. And my choice is a non-choice. I reflect what's missing. So that's all, folks. On a footnote, follow the White Rabbit. Follow the White Rabbit... All things will be clear in their time. Be well.